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-Johnny Tremain (*yawn*)
-All Quiet on the Western Front (WWI is semi-interesting, but how this is written makes the story SO boring and it drags on forever)

But most of all...

The Pearl!

The Lake at the End of the World, who's author I can't remember right now. It absolutely bored the stuffing out of me.

The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Doyle. :/

(I almost said by Sherlock Holmes there, haha)

Funny I come to this thread after the one I just posted on (books I had to read), when I was going to post about this here in the first place.

A Separate Peace was, in my opinion, horrible. I know this is probably too much information, but I remember falling asleep reading it once and drooling *all* over it. When I had to turn it in the next day, my teacher asked me why it was wet and all I could say was "It rained and I have a mesh backpack." D'oh!

*shudders* Don't remind me. Of Mice and Men was worse though.

Oh, I liked The Pearl and Of Mice and Men.

There have only been two books that I couldn't read the whole way through; one was so stupid that I can't even remember the name of it. The other was Pride and Prejudice. I know it's popular right now, and I'm sure that a lot of people love it and I'm really missing out and blah blah blah, but I hated it. I hated it worse than all of the other books I read for AP English, and I wound up reading about twelve pages of it before giving up.

I didn't like the Redwall series either, but I did make it the entire way through the first book. But the first one was enough to tell me I didn't want to bother with any others.

The Old Man and the Sea. Man catches fish, sharks eat fish, Man is Jesuslike. Along the way we hear a lot about Joe DiMaggio and the gender of the sea. I'm sure this book has some redeeming quality somewhere, but I couldn't stand to read it twice and look again. In fact, when I finished reading it I threw it across the room and refused to pick it up again until it was time to take it back to school. It sat on my floor and I stomped on it several times.
A Tale of Two Cities. Maybe because I was forced to read it at 14, when I didn't even know there WAS a French Revolution and none of it made sense. If you're going to make a high school freshman read Dickens, can't it be Great Expectations?

Oh gosh, thats one of my summer reading books



UGH! That book was terrible, it was so-so pointless.


But I really hated House on Mango Street - although it could have been all the extra work we had to do with it.

I just read that a few weeks ago (right before I turned 15), and while I am fully aware of what the French Revolution was and what happened during it (yay history geekness!), it's just... ugh. BEYOND boring.

LotR (Love the movies, though^^)
Of Mice and Men
Much Ado About Nothing (It's as the title suggests)
Ethan Frome
All Quiet on the Western Front
Speak

Anything by O. R. Melling.
A Series of Unfortunate Events

That is all >_<.

Though I tried twice, I couldn't bring myself to go past the first 2 chapters of "The Great Gatsby".
Also, I think "The Da Vinci Code" is the most stupid book ever, and I have no clue why some people would like that. Possibly they haven't read book with real suspence.

lol, I hated that one. It bored my to death, I didn't know what was going on...

and

Building Blocks by Cynthia Voigt (sp?)

I had to read that for Literacy, and it was weird. o_0

Red Badge of Courage, and Great Expectations (or any novel by Dickens), and finally, Jane Eyre. Instead of reading Jane Eyre for one class, I got a friend of mine to tell me about it. She loved the book and described it pretty in-depth and I found out that I really do enjoy the story. But gah! Charlotte Bronte's writing is the literary equivalent of wearing shoes two sizes too small: no matter small your steps are, it's always painful.